Non-competes have been null and void in California for some time. Employees can also recover attorney fees if someone tries to enforce one. It's one of the reasons startups can be started here without fear of persecution by a previous employer.
It's great to see this become national policy.
Good news. Anything that gives Workers an improvement in power should be fully supported.
I have a small consulting company. I had a client hand me a non-compete. He listed my name and that I essentially couldn't work for any IT entity in the state. I signed it.
I don't do business as me, I do business as my company. And it was 100% unenforceable since he was trying to say that by doing a single job for his company would prevent me from doing business with his competitors. His lawyer even laughed about it when reaching out as he knew it was a sad attempt to force contractors to accept his contracts over other entities.
Even he didn't know how they work and he was handing them out like candy.
The people against this might not realize people like the fed/SEC also want less rules about working for their competitors
